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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬

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𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝟏, 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟐𝟎 : "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬."

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𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒏𝒐 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉. 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆 𝒔𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒍𝒇 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎. 𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒆. 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒖𝒕.

"Saige, Rafael come it us. Your friends !" as Mackenzie said "Let me help I got it." as Charlotte moved to the side to let me help her hold the gate.

Rafael and Saige started attacking the iron gate. Rafael and Saige where able to fit their snout through the gate as I flinched slightly.

"Char this gate isn't going to hold them !"as Rafael backed up before banging on the gate more.

I then lifted up the mini rifle I held in my pocket as I pointed it at Saige. She growled at me.

"Come on guys." Charlotte said as I said "We need to go." as Rafael and Saige attacked for a second time which is when I said "Sorry Raf." as I got out my dart gun before it hit Rafael in the hind.

He yelped before he toppled over knocked out. "Kenz !" Charlotte told me as I said "It's ok, I just knocked him out."

I said "Now for Saige." as I blew two as it hid Saige on the hind two knocking her out.

"Wow it worked, but why two for Saige ?" as I said "Cause Saige is strong girl." as Charlotte unlocked the gate.

We both quietly stepped over the two as I accidentally grabbed Charlotte's hand. She rose her eyes at me.

"Sorry." I said to her as Charlotte said "No, it's ok. Kinda of comforting." as I grew a little smile.

The two of us then walked out of the gate. "Come on this well be alot faster if we get out of here." as she took my hand as I nodded to her as she vamp speed us out of the cellar...

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𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒍𝒇 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒆. 𝑴𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕. 𝑰 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓.

"That's a bad bite." Nia said as I said with a eye roll "Obviously." as Nia said "It's not that bad." as I said "It will get bad."

"You will not say a word to Taylor." as Nia said "Ok as long as you drive that dagger through her heart." as I said "Fine." as I rolled my sleeve down.

"So your just going to die ?" as I said "Seems like it." as I stood up as I put my jacket back on as I said "Come on." as Nia stopped in her tracks.

"What's wrong ?" I asked her as I turned to her as she said "I'm going to the school."

I asked arms folded "To do what ?" as Nia said "To help Hope Mikealson, you know your tribrid cousin."

"I'm aware of what species Hope is. I just hope you don't get in our way."as Nia said "I wouldn't bet on it." as she said "Just please make sure Ezra stays safe." as I said "I will if I remember."

Nia gave a slit smile before she grabbed her jacket as she put it on before she said "Goodbye Grace." as Nia nodded going to the door before I said "Goodbye Nia." as Nia left the house closing the door behind her as I took in a deep breathe before going out the door...

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑾𝒚𝒂𝒕𝒕. 𝑾𝒚𝒂𝒕𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒚.

"God my head is killing me !" he groaned as he said "What's happening to me ?"

"Do you recall what happened to you ?" as Wyatt said "I was at the hospital seeing Nancy, once Charlotte left, she attacked me. Then I was grabbed by some woman. A vampire."

"Taylor. It was Taylor." as Wyatt said "Who is that ?" as I said "My cousin." as Wyatt said "Your cousin is a vampire ?!"

"Long story." as Wyatt said "Then she made me drink her blood and, then I don't remember  after that."

Wyatt looked around "Where are we and what is happening ?" as I took Wyatt's hand to help him up. He was shocked since we never really liked each other since we where kids.

"We're at the quarry. She brought us here." as Wyatt asked "Why don't I remember all of this, I'm freaking out Salvatore ?!"

"Wyatt, do you know how somebody becomes a vampire." as Wyatt took heavy breathes.

"What, I watched Twilight. I think die with vampire blood in your system." as he gave a light pause.

"Oh god. Taylor killed me." as I said "Wyatt, listen to me. Listen to me, everything's going to be okay. I'm going to get you out of here."

"Am I a vampire ?" as Sara said "You are." as we both turned to her. I hissed at her my vampire face showing. "Your one to !" he yelled to me as I looked at him, "Y-Yeah I am."

"Get away from us !" I yelled to her as Sara said "I bet your hungry are your Wy ?" as Sara walked to us.

I saw a sharp rock as I vamp speed rushing to grab it as Sara said holding her fist out "Aerodux Motus." as I got sent back as I landed on the dirt a bit painful.

Sara waved her hand again creating a fire ring around me. I stood up and rushed to get out but I found out I couldn't, I couldn't get out. The flames where burning hot.

"Don't even try to get out Stefanie. I spelled the circle. Not even a werewolf can get out, not even you."

"Sara. That's your name right ?" as Sara turned to me. "Sara Zhu. Do you really want to die right now ?! Please Sara I'm begging you let him out."

Sara picked up the rock before she slit open her wrist. Blood dripped from her wound. Wyatt felt a hunger he had never felt.

"Taylor chose him to die." "No." as Sara lowered her hand to Wyatt. "Drink." as I yelled "Wyatt no !"

"I can't stop myself." Wyatt said his eye twitching. Wyatt then after a while grabbed Sara's hand before he bite into it drinking.

"No !" as my eyes fell a bit. Wyatt closed his eyes as the warm blood went into his mouth. After a few moments, Sara pulled her wrist out of Wyatt grip and Wyatt fell to the ground.

"Wyatt, hey, look at me it's ok." as Sara created a ring of fire around him aswell as Wyatt backed up looking scared.

"It's going to be okay." as Wyatt looked at me. Blood was running down his chin as I said "It's ok, it's ok." as Wyatt mouthed to me "No it's not." as dark veins where now under his eyes...

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𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆

𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒓. 𝑴𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒅 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒍𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉'𝒔 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆. 𝑾𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝑵𝒊𝒂. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒋𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒋𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒖𝒔.

"Remind me again why we are trusting her ?" I asked Hope as Hope said "Because she offered to help." as I said "Yeah last time she did that me and you where knocked out and in the nurses's office."

"Jo, if you don't trust Nia, then trust me." as I looked at her as I said "I've always trusted you." as Hope gave a tiny smile, we had walked up to Nia.

"Great you guys came." as I folded my arms "Like we had a chose." as Nia took in a breathe "Look, I know what I did to you all at the dance. It wasn't my best use of my skills and magic and I was just doing what Taylor told me to do."

"Why ?" as Nia said "To protect Ezra." as Nia said "I've always believe, people make scarifies for those who they love and I love Ezra, and I'll protect who I love no matter what. Witches have that loyalty to those around them."

"Come on." Nia said taking a deep breathe." as Nia went through the door, we followed behind her.

Nia opened the door. "I've never seen this place before." as Nia said "A long story about witches, who the founders burned here, but we don't have time for that, as the clock ticks away."

We all made it to the basement. Nia titled her head to the side causing the candles to lit up. "Wow." I said as Nia waved her hands causing all the grimoires to come out of their sleeves and into a stack on the table.

"Here, everyone grab a grimoire, there has to be something in here to stop the ritual from happening." as Hope went to the left of the table and grabbed a old grimoire as I grabbed one and my dad grabbed one.

"What kind of magic do you practice Nia ?" I asked her as Nia flipped a page through a book as she looked at Josie.

"I actually do Ancestral Magic, which is a extremely powerful form of witchcraft, and it draws on power from consecrated witches, it's commonly practiced among the witches of New Orleans."

"Wow. I would like to learn more." I said as Nia "Maybe when this is all over it, I'll show some tricks." as I smiled as Nia smiled back before we both went back to reading...

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑾𝒚𝒂𝒕𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈.

"Do you feel different ?" as Wyatt said "I feel like me... I think. It's like everything inside my body exploded. Part of me is scared and the other part of me doesn't want to feel anything."

"Vampires like myself can turn off our emotions." as Wyatt said with tears, "I'm going die aren't I ?"

"No !, I am not letting any of that happen to you, hey you look at me." as I said "There's no way Wyatt Fell the star quarterback would me scared." as Wyatt rose his eyes at me.

"Look, I know you and me never got along, but you mean the world to my best friend, and she loves you so me and you are going to make it through this, no matter what I have to do."

"Ok." he said softly.

"Now." Sara said as she stood on her feet as her hair flew in the wind as she me and Wyatt covered our eyes.

"What happening ?" I asked as he said "I don't know." as there was now a circle of fire around Sara.

She looked down at it. She then rose her eyes at me. "Your a witch Sara ! A witch ! And that's coming from me, trust me witches drive me insane ! but it's your job to maintain the balance in nature. It's your duty to them to keep Taylor's curse sealed. "

"I take orders from Taylor Salvatore, nobody else. Her way is better !" which is when we all heard "Good to know someone still values the right thing." as we all turned to see Taylor, she smirked at all of us.

Behind her was Grace and Ezra. Taylor look between all of us. "Hello my darlings. Are we ready for tonight ?" as I grew a worried expression looking at my murderous cousin...

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𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆

𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆'𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.

"Come on hurry !" I told her as Mackenzie came inside the house to. I closed the doors locking them.

Me and Mackenzie took in heavy breathes. I peered outside the window, I didn't see Saige nor Rafael, so I thought me and Kenz were in the clear.

"Do you see anything ?" Mackenzie asked me as I said "Nope, not a wolf in sight." as Mackenzie lowered her gun. "Good."

I sighed before Mackenzie adding, "Where not safe in here, there going to try and get in." as I said "Can we at least try and relax for a minute."

"Yeah, catch your breathe." Mackenzie told me as she looked around. I rose from kneeling down as I asked "So where does this whole thing put us ?"

Mackenzie turned to me, "What do you mean ?" as she said "About the argument earlier."

Mackenzie sighed. "I just don't know why I'm acting like this, jealous, I'm sorry, I am." as I said "It's ok, I get it, Wyatt's done things in the past, but he's changed. I made him changed."

"I trust you. Your decision is your's, not mine, but please just make sure he's the right one."

I said "He is. He may not be the perfect boy in your eyes, but he is for me." as I looked to the side of Mackenzie before I said "Don't move." as Mackenzie said "What are you talking about-"

"Kenz, stay still !" I shouted to her as she peered over her shoulder to hear growling only to turn and see Mr. Lockwood, Saige's dad in his wolf form growling at us.

Mackenzie gave a little gasp as she backed up to the door with me. He started to approach us. "Is that ?" she asked me as I said "Saige's dad. Who is also a werewolf."

"He must hadn't been able to turn in time to get to the cell." as we both hit the door.

I said "What now for us ?" as she said "Try not to get mauled to death by our best friends's dad." as we looked back at Mr. Lockwood who snarled at us furiously...

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𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍.

"I'm coming." I said as the knocking didn't stop as I made it the door. I opened it only to see Mr and Mrs Salvatore.

My eyes went wide. I hadn't see Stefanie's parents in a long time. Mr. Salvatore was next to Mrs. Salvatore, who looked worried. I was guessing they where looking for their daughter.

Mrs. Salvatore was wearing a brown leather jacket with a stripped shirt underneath and denim pink jeans with sneakers and her purse, her hair was curly.

Mr. Salvatore wore a leather jacket with denim black jeans, and black boots. "Mrs and Mr. Salvatore." as Mrs. Salvatore said "Hope Mikealson ?" she asked to make sure it was me.

"Yeah that's me." as she came inside the house. Mr. Salvatore following behind. "Where's Alaric, I need to speak to him, I haven't been able to reach Stefanie in hours."

"Yeah and where worried parents." as I gave them a look of worry aswell as I was aware of what I could do. That's when Dr. Saltzman came as I said "Um Dr. Saltzman." as he said "Damon, Elena."

Mrs. Salvatore turned as she asked "Alaric, where is Stefanie ?" as Josie asked "Wait, Stefanie hasn't told you guys anything ?" as Mr Salvatore folded his arms and asked "About what ?"

"About Taylor." Hope asked as Mrs. Salvatore asked "Taylor's involved, that's impossible, Taylor's been my friend, she would never harm my daughter."

"Elena." Dr. Saltzman said as Mrs. Salvatore said "Rick, if it's something concerning my daughter, I need you to tell me now."

"Where's Stefanie ?" Mr. Salvatore asked as I said to them, "Taylor isn't who you think she is. Mrs. Salvatore, Mr. Salvatore she's your niece."

"Niece, that's impossible. The only niece we have is Charlotte and Caroline doesn't have anymore kids." as Alaric said "She wasn't talking about Caroline."

"Taylor is Stefan's daughter." Josie said as Mr and Mrs. Salvatore's eyes went wide...

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"What ?! That's not possible. Stefan had no children, non at all." Mrs. Salvatore said placing her purse down as Mr. Salvatore said "I would be aware of my own brother's daughter."

"That's the thing. That children that Stefan told you guys about. The one Valerie was carrying, that children that everyone thought died survived, and that child was Taylor."

"No wonder it felt so familiar when I meet her. Like I was talking with Stefan." Mrs. Salvatore told Mr. Salvatore as he said "The only thing she didn't get from her father is kindness and good by the sound of it."

"Taylor has been planning to sacrifice Stefanie in a ritual for a while now, the same one you where in a long time ago Mrs. Salvatore."

"So where is Stefanie now ?" Mrs Salvatore asked as Josie said "She's at the ritual but where looking for a way to stop her."

"I can't believe you didn't us about this." Mrs. Salvatore said to Dr. Saltzman as she said "All I asked for you was to keep Stefanie's safe and now she's about to die."

"Elena, now's not the time." Mr. Salvatore told her as Mrs. Salvatore said "Ian't believe, Stefanie didn't tell us about any of this, no wonder she's been off. Our daughter is about to die Damon."

"I know and where going to do something about it." as Nia came upstairs as she said "If I am to interrupt, theses grimories are the answer." as Mr Salvatore asked "And who are you ?"

"Nia, I'm a friend of Stefanie's and I want to live just as much as you both do."

Mrs. Salvatore, "I am not letting my daughter die tonight. If let's go ahead and look through theses grimories."

"I agree." Mr. Salvatore said as I said "So this is a bad time to mention the fact that Stef has a evil doppelganger name Grace."

Mrs. Salvatore blew her cheeks out and rubbed her forehead as she muttered to herself, "Can this day get worse."

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑴𝒆, 𝑾𝒚𝒂𝒕𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆. 𝑼𝒑 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍, 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕, 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓. 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆

"I got the moonstone. This rock has been troubling to get, if you ask me. I'm been searching for it for a thousand years and now I finally have it, I'm sad to say goodbye."

"Ezra get into your place." as Ezra looked up at me. I looked back at her. She sighed, before she went to the stone bowl as Taylor gave the stone to Ezra.

"The moon has passed it's apex. Remember what you need to do." as Taylor said "I do." 

Ezra dropped the stone into the stone bowl filled with flames. Spark flew at the moonstone being destroyed. Ezra began to chant in Latin. The wind picked up a bit as Taylor walked to Sara's fire ring.

Taylor looked down at Sara. "Are you ready Sara Bear ?" as Sara smiled at Taylor. "I would love nothing more but to die at your hands." as she gave a grin as Taylor smiled to.

"I'm glad to hear."  Taylor said to Sara as Sara's fire ring disappeared.  Taylor walked to Sara as Sara nodded to her.

Taylor nodded back before growing a villainous smirk at her as she used her speed to grabbed Sara by her hair pulling her back before she plunged her hand into her chest pulling her heart out.

Sara took her final breathe before she her eyes rolled to the top of her head before she died. Taylor let her go as she fell to the ground.

Taylor took in deep breathes as she held Sara's heart in her hands as me and Wyatt looked at her horrified.

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𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆

"𝑱𝒐, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 ?" 𝑵𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒅 "𝑬𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒕'𝒔, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒕, 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆."

"Bonnie was something special." Mrs. Salvatore said walking downstairs as me and Nia looked at her.

"She is my best friend and is truly a powerful witch. I wish she was here right now, she would know the answer to all of this, but right now she not here, so we have to do on our own."

"I saw she was working on a certain spell, It may help us save Stefanie." as Mrs. Salvatore said "I'm all ears." as I said "The spell was a normal resuscitative spell, both of looked over it and we think it can help us."

"So it will bring her back to life ?" she asked as Nia said "Yes Ma'm." as I said "Good, then I'll do the spell." as I ripped the page from the book.

"You don't seriously think you'll be strong enough to do the spell right ?" as I asked "Do you think you can ?"

Nia said "Yes, I do." as Nia held her hand out to me as she added "Plus I'm sure Stefanie wouldn't want you to do anything stupid." as I put the spell in her hands, "Thank you." Nia said.

"Well seems like we have our spell." Mrs. Salvatore said as she said "Nice jobs girls." as me and Nia smiled at her.

"If there's one thing Stefanie get's from you it's her ability to look on the bright side." as Mrs. Salvatore said "Well my daughter can be stubborn yes, she still has a half of me inside of her."

"Anyway, I'll get Damon to take a look at this." as she went upstairs, while going up Mrs. Salvatore phone ringed. She huffed before she answered it. "Hello ?" as she heard "Hi Elena."

"Katherine ?" Mrs. Salvatore asked as the voice said "A mini version of her's" as she said "Grace, aren't I right ?"

Grace said "Good job you got it right, really if you saw me, you wouldn't even tell the different between me and your daughter who's about to die btw."

"Stay the h*ll away from my daughter." as Grace said "I wish I could but I don't take orders from you Elena. Also I recommended you still the others to stay out of the way, Taylor doesn't like meddling."

"Tell Taylor I don't care what she wants anymore, she's dead when I see her." as Grace laughed over the side of the phone, "I find it hilariously how you think your threatens scare me or Taylor. No wonder my mother thought you where the laughing stock of Mystic Falls."

"We'll see Grace." as Grace said "Yeah we will, I hope you told your daughter you loved her before she left, because that is the last time you'll see her." as she hanged up as the phone went down slowly from her ear.

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𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓

𝑬𝒛𝒓𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂'𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒍. 𝑰 𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅.

"Is it working ?" she asked as I said "It's working." as I lowered Sara's heart before throwing it to the ground.

Back inside the fire rings, Stefanie stood inside her's. She looked over to Sara's lifeless body with a hole in it's chest, before she huffed. Wyatt was shivering. Stefanie turned to him.

"I was jealous of you." she heard before she turned to Wyatt. Stefanie gave a slit huff out. "Wyatt, look I know you may be scared, but there no time for last dying forgiveness speeches."

"I'm serious Salvatore, now you wonder why nobody likes you." as Stefanie huffed before sitting down on her knees.

"Ok, I'm sorry. I'm just on my toes." as she asked "What do you mean you where jealous of me ?" as Wyatt said "Who wouldn't be jealous of you ? You have a loving mother and father. You made straight A's, and you where dating the most prettiest girl in school."

"You had the life I could only think of having." as I asked "I thought you had everything ? I mean you're mom is a rich doctor after all."

He said "Please. The guy who always dropped me and Nancy at school is my mom's boyfriend. He treat's my mom like she's sort of toy and doesn't love her at all. I hear them every night and it makes me sick. My real dad walked out. You had everything I could ever want."

I sighed. Man I had no idea how bad Wyatt had it. I thought he was just a jerk for no reason."

"Wyatt, I am getting you out of here I swear. When you get the chance to Wyatt run." as Wyatt nodded quietly saying "Ok."

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𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝑹𝒂𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝑴𝒓. 𝑳𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒐𝒐𝒅.

"Mackenzie when you get the chance, you are going to run." I held my gun with me as I asked her, "Are you nuts !"

"Maybe a little, but it's a werewolf's instance to chase after vampires. And I'm half vampire."

"Char we can't go off of some instance !" I said to her as Charlotte said "Then go off what I'm begging you. I rather have this thing get me than you." as I started to take steps back.

Mr. Lockwood came towards her. He growled which is when Charlotte yelled "Mackenzie run !" as I took off.

Mr. Lockwood would have came towards Charlotte before I shoot him in the leg causing him to pass out.

Charlotte turned to me. I looked at her. "I said run !" Charlotte told me as I said "And I thought other wise, I wasn't going to leave you to die, not again." as Charlotte then picked up something with her hearing.

"What is it ?" I asked her as I started to open the door. "Wait." she told her.

Charlotte's listening became more clear which is when she heard more shuffling on the front porch. I pointed my gun at the door. Charlotte walked to the door. "Kenz lower your gun."

"What ?!" as I turned to her "Just do it." as she added "And go get a table cloth." as I gave a look but went. I came back with the white cloth. I held my hand out as she gave it to me.

I then opened the door only to see a brown wolf on the door step.

Me and Charlotte looked before seeing the wolf's fingers grew apart turning into human's hand and it was now Saige laying on the steps naked. She groaned. Her hair frizzy.

"Saige !" we both said as we both came towards her. We knelled down to her as Charlotte placed the cloth over her naked body. Saige was shivering cold from the wind.

"I'm cold." she shivered as Mackenzie saw the wolf trap on her leg. She then opened the trap up causing Saige to give a groan out. "I'm sorry Saige." as Charlotte added "Your safe now."

"It's okay, it's okay." I told her as her eyes went in and out.

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𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆

𝑰 𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑴𝒓. 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏. "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒌, 𝒘𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒚."

"You read my mind, I have what I need for the spell. I however need a certain witch to perform the spell."

"What kind of witch ?" Mr. Salvatore asked as Nia said "A Bennett witch."

"Where are we going to find a Bennett witch at this time ?" Josie asked me as I shook my head.

"Ezra's doing the spell, there's no other Bennett witch, beside her." which is when Dr. Saltzman came down.

"Actually we have somebody to do the spell." as Mrs. Salvatore walked down, "Good I'm best friend with a Bennett witch."

That's when the legend herself. Bonnie walked down the stairs. Her hair was in braids.

She wore a black leather skirt with black ankle booties a black blouse with puff sleeves. "Elena." Bonnie said hugging her tightly as Mrs. Salvatore hugged her. "I'm shocked to see you again." Mrs. Salvatore said.

"I just wish the nature of the situation would be better." as Bonnie turned to Mrs. Salvatore. "Damon." Bonnie said with a smile as Damon said "Hello Bon Bon." as she hugged him to.

"Miss Bennett." as Bonnie said "Bonnie's fine Hope." as I said "Bonnie, do you know how to help Stefanie."

"I know. Decides Taylor made a mistake putting my daughter and god daughter in this problem."

"I'm not going to be doing the spell to stop that. I'm leaving that to my daughter. I know she knows what to do with it. She's my kid after all. I'm gonna take her place."

"Bonnie are you sure about this ?" Dr. Saltzman asked as Bonnie said "I will give my own life for my daughter and Stefanie, Alaric, I'm sure."

"Thank you." Mrs. Salvatore told him as Bonnie said "Always, come on, let's go kill a hybrid again." as she gave a tiny smirk.

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𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆

𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝑾𝒚𝒂𝒕𝒕'𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈. 

"Hello Wyatt." Taylor said to him as Wyatt looked at Taylor. She titled her head.

"Taylor !" Stefanie yelled to her as Taylor rolled her eyes before turning to her cousin. "What is it now Stefanie ? It's not your famous last words yet."

"I understand that fact that I have to die, but kill Wyatt. He's innocent." as Stefanie started to walk towards her, but the flames flare up and Stefanie backed up.

"Careful cousin, wouldn't want you to burn up in flames." as she smirked as Taylor turned back to Wyatt.

He backed up a bit. "What is this trying to get Charlotte all to yourself ?"

She turned to Stefanie once more. "Oh naive little Stefanie. Charlotte and me are in a halt, but now that I think about, I don't want competition for Char affection."

Wyatt braced for impact and before she sighed and looked to the top of the quarry.

"Well, well. Hope told you didn't she." as she added "I didn't recall saying you three where on the guest list."

Stefanie, Wyatt looked up to see Mr. Salvatore, Mrs. Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett standing at the top of a cliff.

"Mom. Dad." Stefanie yelled to her parents as Mrs. Salvatore said "Where coming Stefanie !" as Ezra said "Mom." as Bonnie smiled to Ezra before saying "Hang on dear. Mom has to take care of a few thing." as she looked to Taylor as she smirked giving a small wave.

I began to walk towards the cliff but Taylor held her hand out to stop me. "No. You watch Ezra, Stefanie and Wyatt." as she turned to the Mr Salvatore, Mrs. Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett.

"This is a family matter." as Taylor began to walk to the cliff before walking towards the cliff as she vamp speed to the top off the cliff as she walked calmly towards the three.

"Hello Aunt Elena and Uncle Damon. Along with you as well Bonnie. What can I do for you today ?"

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𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆

𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝑴𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑵𝒊𝒂.

"We found something in the grimorie" as my dad asked "What is it ?"

"Ok, so there is a story. Miss Bennett used this spell a long time ago. The story is that a mother  called on Emily's services. The woman's baby was dying. Emily cast a spell that would bind the woman's life force with her child."

"Wow." Hope said as I asked "Ok but how does this help Stef ?"

"Well, the child died, but the mother's life force flowed through her, restoring her to life."

"That's powerful." My dad said as Hope said "But Stefanie is a vampire, so it will restore her to a human life or a vampire one ?"

"I don't know." Nia said as I said "I'm willingly to take that chance if it means she lives either way."

"But what if it's not the chance Stefanie wants." as I rubbed my lips together and said "I'll take the odds."

"Who's going to do the spell ?" Hope asked as Nia said "The only one who can." as my dad said "Ezra."

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𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑼𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏, 𝑨𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆. 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆.

"What's going on ?" Stefanie asked Grace as Grace said to her, "You think If I know I would honestly tell you ?" as Stefanie rolled her eyes at her doppelganger.

"Grace." as Grace turned to her as Stefanie said "You have the dagger that can kill Taylor. You can end this whole thing."

"I can end this. I can, but I don't want to." as Stefanie huffed. "Why ?" as Grace turned to her in a loud yet whisper tone. "Because !"

Stefanie asked "Because what ! Why do you hate me with a burning passion, we shouldn't be our parents."

Grace hissed to me, "Because you have everything that I every wanted. A family. Friends. A girlfriend. A reason to live. I should have what you have, but I don't. So If you dying gives me the satisfaction of missing out on my life. Then so long Stefanie." as Grace turned back to Taylor.

"Grace-" Stefanie said low. She sighed as Stefanie nodded to Wyatt. He looked up at her.

"What are they saying ?" she mouthed to him as Wyatt gave a confused look. "You have supernatural hearing like I do, use it."

Wyatt took in a breathe before he started to use his hearing.

Back on top of the cliff I smirked to the three concerned parents. "Well, it is so good to see you both again Mr and Mrs Salvatore, or I could finally call you both Uncle Damon and Aunt Elena."

"Save us the family reunion talk." Uncle Damon told me as I titled my head at him. "Give us Stefanie." Aunt Elena told me.

I chuckled. "Oh, I hate to part with my dear cousin so early. We barely got to spend a whole week together."

"Cut the crap Taylor. You lied." as I folded my arms at her. "You are going to kill my daughter. Your own cousin what kind of monster are you ?"

I gave a short laugh, "Oh Aunt Elena." as my aunt gave me a look. I walked towards her as she walked back a bit.

"You where the one who was so naive. You can't get mad at me for not seeing the mistake you where making for trusting me. You were so ready to let anyone back into life that remind you of my dad. To see that smile. Those forest green eyes again. The dark blonde hair"

"So unaware that I was the devil in disguise." as I took her hand as she looked at me. I was right the forest green eyes is what ruined her.

"Was it real to you ? The bonding we had ? Or where you just using me to get what you want ?"

I gave her a look as I said "Poor Aunt Elena, you really want me to be as good as my dad"

I leaned closer to her before adding, "It meant nothing to me." a couple of tears where in her eyes as I said "Oh don't cry. Not my fault the apple didn't fall from the tree."

I walked away from her as I added "Bonnie. We mean't again. I assume your here to stop me."

"Well you assumed right." she told me as I said "I heard your like a selfless hero."

"I want to take my daughter's place. I will unlock your hybrid side and in return you let Ezra go."

Taylor rose a brow as she said "Aren't you a hero ?" as she said "Just make the trade." as Wyatt heard the last of the conversation.

"Wyatt what did you hear ?" Ezra asked him hands pressed on the bowl as Wyatt said "You." as Stefanie asked "What ?"

"You mom want to take your place E." Grace told her as Ezra and me exchanged looks before rising our eyes at the three horrified.

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𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆.

"Hey." I said as she said "Hey." as I asked "How is Saige ?"

Charlotte said "She's fine. Sleeping like a baby, I would guess turning takes a toll on her. She well feel better in the morning. Just needs some rest."

"Where's Raf ?" I asked her as she said "Saige told me before she fell asleep that they got split up, but she knows he's ok, said she could feel it."

"Good." I said before pausing for a minute along with Charlotte. "So is this suppose to be our lives now ?" as Charlotte smiled and said "Never going to be a boring moment."

I stood up before walking towards Charlotte. "You know in theses last couple of days, even though it's been very crazy. You've still stayed you."

"And what is me ?" she asked me as I smiled and said "Good." as she gave a slit smirk at me saying "So have you." as she huffed asking "Do you think Wyatt is going to live after tonight ?"

I sighed saying "When have the odds ever been that great for innocents surviving ?" as Charlotte said "Yeah I guess your right, he's probably dead by now."

"But that doesn't mean you shouldn't hold on for hope that he's ok and safe." as she nodded "Yeah, I'm starting to think that your becoming the optimistic one."

"Maybe I am." I told her as she chuckled, "Decides Stefanie is going to keep him safe." as Charlotte said "Yeah."

"Kenz ?" she asked me as I said "Yeah ?" as she asked me "Why do you not want me to date Wyatt, the real truth."

My cheeks went red along with my ears as I glanced away from her. She took my hand, her grip was soft. "You can tell me Kenz, where friends right."

"That's the problem." as she gave me a look as I added "Where just friends " as tiny tears appeared in my eyes.

I got up walking away from her. "What so the problems is that where friends ?" as I stopped in my tracks before giving her a look.

Charlotte finally understood the look. "K-Kenz-" she said gentle as I wiped my eyes with my hand. "It's not important. We have to get Stefanie."

She bite her jaw on the inside before giving me a sad look nodding in understatement of what I wanted as I walked out...

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𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑵𝒊𝒂, 𝑫𝒓. 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒚.

"Come on guys we have a hybrid to kill." Nia told us. I said "I just texted Ezra, I told her everything. I even sent her a picture of the spell."

"Good." Josie said as I put my hand on her shoulder. "I know Stefanie is alive."

"What does Ezra have to do ?" I asked as Nia said "All she has to do is call on the power of her ancestors it will be enough to end Taylor."

"That's it ?" I asked her as she said "Yeah that's it." "Seems easy enough." Josie said.

"I'll get my crossbow." he told us as I turned to him. "Dr Saltzman, your human we can't worry if you'll get hurt." as he said "I won't." as Josie said "You don't know that."

He then found it weird that we where agreeing on everything. "What did you both do ?" as he felt the knife in his hand leave it as he saw Ms. Forbes.

"Caroline ?" he said shock as  Mrs. Forbes said "Yeah it's me Rick, I'm going to help Stefanie with the girls and you going to stay here."

He then started to walk but realized there was a invisible barrier blocking them.

"Hope ! Josie ! Caroline ! What is this ?" as Hope said "We can't put anyone else at risk." as he said "I can't stay here, Stefanie is in danger."

"I'm sorry dad." he told us as Mrs. Forbes said "You'll forgive me later, don't be mad at Josie. Be mad at me."

"You can't do this Caroline." as the four of us began to walk away from him. "Sorry, Dr. Saltzman She's right." Nia told him.

"No! You can't do this. Caroline Caroline !" as he angrily banged on the barrier.

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

"𝑴𝒐𝒎, 𝑫𝒂𝒅." 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. "𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒐𝒌, 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚." 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒑 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑰 𝒏𝒐𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌, "𝑶𝒌. 𝑰'𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒚𝒐𝒖." 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆. "𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰𝒇 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖." 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 "𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐."

"I have to do something. I can't let Aunt Bonnie get hurt." as Wyatt said "Salvatore..."

Taylor along with my mom, dad and aunt Bonnie came down. "Well, Well. It's all come down to this. The final count down."

I said sadly "Mom, Dad. Aunt Bonnie." as My aunt said "It's ok, I'm gonna be ok. I love you sweet pea." as Taylor asked loosing patience, "So then who's it going to be cuz ?"

"No, don't make me chose." as my aunt turned to Ezra. "Ezra baby, come on."  she said to her daughter as Ezra said "Mom no !"

"It's ok, come on." as my aunt held her hands out to Ezra as Ezra walked towards her as Aunt Bonnie said quietly to her, "You know who you have to do." as Ezra nodded as my aunt got in Ezra place.

Taylor nodded to Ezra as Ezra ran not before nodding to me. "I love you." she told me as I said "I know." as I added "I love you to."

Taylor said looking around "Ok then, seems like were all set." as she was about to walk to the away when she added "Though I like to say. You two aren't gonna get in my way."

With that two male vampires in black suits and black coats came and held my parents tightly as they struggled as they both pointed guns to their chests.

"No !" I shouted as Aunt Bonnie said "Elena ! Damon !" as My mom said "Let me go !"

Taylor said "If they try anything rip there hearts out, take there heads clean off I could care less." as she walked towards the altar.

I cried, "No Taylor please !" as she shouted to me, "You don't get a say anymore !" her vampire eyes out as I took uneven heavy breathes scared out of my mind.

"Whenever you're ready, Bonnie." as Bonnie gave her a look before she began to chant the next phase of the spell.

With that the fire circle around Wyatt disappeared. Wyatt looked terrified as I watched on.

"No." I grumbled Taylor said "You're turn Wy." as he had tears in eyes.

"No Wyatt ! No !"

I hissed my vampire face out and I attempted to get to Wyatt, but the fire flared around me again. "It's ok I know what I have to do Salvatore."

After a moment of silence between me and him. Wyatt vamp speed over to Grace and ferociously bites her neck. Grace screamed out.

Taylor vamp speed over ripping Wyatt off of her as she used her speed to kick him the stomach.

"Are you ok ?" Taylor asked as Grace said "I'll live, kill him or I will." as Taylor looked over to Wyatt who laid on the ground blood running down his cheek.

"Well Wyatt seems like the lady has spoken." as Wyatt gave her a look. Taylor grabbed a stake from the ground.

"No Wyatt !" I yelled as Wyatt looked to me with tears in eyes. I realized there was nothing I could do as I said with a voice crack, "Just turn it off. Wy. Turn it off. You won't be scared anymore."

Taylor flipped Wyatt over as Wyatt said low "Tell Charlotte I love her." as Taylor with a smirk on he face staked Wyatt in his heart.

"No !" I yelled as Wyatt's body started to become grey and decayed. Taylor released the stake from her hand and stood up. Wyatt laid lifeless on the stone with the stake through his heart.

"Ugh, Good riddance." My Aunt Bonnie rubbed her lips together to stop her tears as she went back to chanting. That's when I looked to see Charlotte running with Mackenzie.

She saw my teary cheeks and looked over to see Wyatt's dead body with the stake in his heart.

"No !" she wailed causing Taylor to turn to see her. "Wyatt !" she said crying historically.

"Want me to take care of them ?" Grace asked me as I said "No. Let her cry, let it out." as Mackenzie held Charlotte to stop her from running to her death.

She fell to her knees and sobbed. "Kenz, let me go." she said teary cheeks as Mackenzie just held her tightly.

"Are they going to kill her ?" as Mackenzie whispered "Yes." as Taylor walked towards me I was on my knees in shock.

"It's time." she said with a smirk. The circle of fire around me disappears from around me.

"No !" my mother yelled as my dad yelled "No Stefanie !" struggled trying to let himself go.

I looked up at Taylor as she extended her hand to me. I slapped it away as I got up from the ground walking past her ignoring her as well.

I made my way to the altar and looked to Wyatt's body. Taylor followed me and grabbed my face in her hand. Grace was behind her as she slowly slipped the dagger from her pocket.

"Stefanie !" I heard as I saw Josie running at full speed over to me, Hope and Nia behind as I also noticed the rest of the super squad there as well. "Stef !" they shouted.

"Thank you so much Stefanie, you've been such a great help." as I told her "Go to h*ll." as she titled her head and said "Oh cousin, I was born in h*ll."

I stared out blankly as Taylor wasted no time to sink her fangs in my neck as she started to drain me of my blood. My mom, dad, Josie, Hope, Mackenzie, Charlotte, and the others watched helplessly.

"NO !" my mom screamed out with tears. "Stefanie !" my dad yelled out tears in eyes.

Taylor held me tightly as her eyes began to sprout veins. My eyelids flutter as my eyes rolled to the top of my head as I died as Taylor released me as I fell to the ground with a thud as I laid on my back.

Blood drip from Taylor's mouth as Aunt Bonnie backed away as the fire went out in the bowl. My body laid helpless as I started to decay.

Josie fell to her knees as she saw me without life. She screamed out which caused a shock wave to leave her body pushing a couple of leaves back.

"Stefanie !" Mackenzie yelled. Taylor took in breathes heavily as she walked down the stones.

"Do you feel it ?" Grace asked Taylor as Taylor said "It's happening, the power is coming back to me." as Taylor looked up to the full moon.

Suddenly her bones cracked as she moaned before she looked down to her hands to see a purplish light glowed from them as she noticed her body shared a similar purple aura.

The light blinded all of the others as Taylor's sclera turned purple as veins appeared her eyes like a vampire before the sclera of her eyes turned black and her iris a dark royal purple as her vampire fangs grew in.

She felt all her power running back into her as she said "Yes, yes !"  as Grace ready the dagger but it was all interrupted when Taylor was through in the air, as Grace joined her.

The bowl of flames reignite again, it startled my aunt Bonnie before she noticed it was her daughter walking down the hill chanting the same spell she used years ago. She smiled proudly.

Aunt Caroline than sneaked behind Aunt Bonnie. She jumped. "Care ?!" she asked as my aunt smiled at her, "Bon, get out of here, we'll meet you back at the Damon and Elena." as my aunt nodded.

"Watch my daughter." she begged as Aunt Caroline said "I promise I will."

Aunt Bonnie left which is when Aunt Caroline saw Grace as Grace got ready to fight as Aunt Caroline charged but stopped when she saw that Grace fell to her the ground her neck snapped know other than Charlotte.

"Bunny Boo ?" Aunt Caroline said which is when she saw Charlotte's teary eyes. Her mother understanding nodded.

"Phasmatos Infero Eseri Gratas, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Victamas Veras. Phasmatos Tribum, Niha Sue Exilum, Disasustos Vom, Mas ." Ezra chanted

"Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Levam, Mina Sue Te, Disasustos Vom, Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te. Phasmatos Veras. Fes Matos Tribum, Mas Pro Tes Unum. Victas Ex Melam, Phasmatos Vanem. Mas Pro Je Ta Sue Te !"

"I should have killed you !" Taylor hissed on the ground as Ezra siad "You couldn't even if you tried."

Ezra continued to chant the spell. Taylor body went into painful shapes as she screamed out.

Meanwhile Aunt Caroline grabbed my body. "Come to Auntie Sweetie." a sentence she told me all the time as a baby. She picked me up in her arms.

Mackenzie then fought the two vampires who held my parents. She shoot them both in the chests as she grabbed her special knife knowing the consequence that would come but my parents life was more important.

She stabbed the one vampire in the chest as he fell to the ground decaying as she turned before slicing the other one's throat.

Blood sprayed on her face as her marks glowed. My aunt made her way towards my parents. My mom held me with tears seeing me decayed. "Stefanie." she sobbed.

"Get her out of her Caroline." Damon said as she said "What about the two of you ?" as my mom said "We are not leaving until Ezra kills her." as my Aunt nodded vamp speeding away taking Charlotte, Mackenzie and the others with her.

Ezra still chanted the spell. It was so powerful it caused trees to shake and fall and wind to grow strong.

Taylor screamed in pain on rocks as she looked to the side to see Grace on the ground before she looked up to see Ezra, my mom, and dad.

Taylor laughed on the ground. "Oh, so are you going to kill me Ezra ?" as Ezra said "You deserved to be killed for all the trouble, and pain you've brought among people and families. So yes I will."

Ezra then rose her hand as Taylor lifted off of the ground as Ezra started to take her heart from her chest.

But before Ezra could finish the job, Taylor swatted her hands back causing a shock wave of purple magic to come out which sent Ezra and my parents back.

They fell with groans as Ezra rose her eyes sitting up a bit to see the hybrid in her true power.

Taylor caused a earthquake to shake the quarry, as fire sprouted around the area being so powerful enough to catch the nearby trees on fire as the winds shook as Taylor had a devilish smirk on her face.

"Oh Ezra, try to kill me now, you will die !"

Ezra rose up and said "I don't care, I will take you out !" as Taylor narrowed her eyes, her hybrid eyes glowing as she stopped the earthquake and the fire along with the winds as she used her speed to grab Grace from the ground before she vamp speed away behind the pile of rocks...

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𝑴𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔. 𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆. 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒆, 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒓. 𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒂𝒏.

Josie wiped the tears that fell down her face. Her cheeks hot from all the crying she had done, Lizzie was next to her and she rubbed her arms.

That's when Saige burst inside the room. Her hair was tied in a ponytail and she wore a white knit sweater and shorts with socks and slippers as if she had just gotten out of bed, which she did.

She had gotten the call from Charlotte. Rafael was with her, wearing one of the Salavoltre sweatshirt and matching jogging pants. Her dad was there to wearing a comfortable shirt and matching pants as well.

"No." Saige said as she saw my decaying body lying lifeless on the couch along with the sad faces that were shared in the school. Nobody had no idea how they were going to tell her.

"No." Saige said with a voice crack as tears started to steam down her cheeks and onto the ground. She crumpled to her knees.

"This can't be happening." she cried biting on her lower lip as Rafael rubbed her shoulders.

She went over to my body as she held my cheeks in her hands. "Come on Stefanie." she said with tears as she added "Open your eyes, come on, as her hand shake uncomfortably as she sobbed.

She held herself together as she rose to her shaky legs. "Something, there has to be something we can do. A spell anything." as my mom said "Saige sweetie." as Dr Saltzman said "Saige we tried everything, she's gone-"

"No she can't be dead, she's a vampire, she's immortal. There a spell somewhere and I'm gonna find it, I'll find it till my dying breathe !" she said with trembles as her voice was raisen.

"Saige-" Rafael said gently to her as Saige screamed "She's not dead !" her werewolf eyes out as her blueish, purplish magic slipped out of her causing stuff to be knocked down and the lights to brust.

The others flinched. Saige then cried again before sitting down next to me she grabbed my hand. "You still owe me a dance Foxy." as a tiny smile came on her face as she squeezed my hand.

Josie rose her head up. "She should be alive, the elixir should have work." as my dad said "Well it didn't." as Dr Saltzman said "We don't know for sure."

"Then we give her blood, she need to feed." as Mackenzie said "Jo the last time she feed on you, you died." as Josie said "Not if I trust Stefanie. I love her, I know she won't her me."

"Josie be careful." Ms. Forbes told her as Charlotte said "She will mom, I trust my sister."

Josie smiled to Charlotte before she got out a small hat pin to prick her neck as a small stream of blood came down as she nodded to my mom as she nodded back.

She sat me up as Josie took her hair from her neck as she put my face to her neck as she said "Come on Stefanie, one sip. I need you" I then felt myself come back, I felt Josie's blood hit my lip.

I sunk my fangs into her neck as I began to drink from her. Everyone watched in shock at me being alive. My skin started to go to normal as I held Josie by neck while my arm held her shoulder.

I opened my eyes as they where there vampire ones. Josie just sat there and let me feed, a bit of happy tears fell down her face. I pulled away as Josie held her neck as she looked at me.

I looked back at her. She smiled at me as my vampire eyes faded.

I removed her arm from her neck as I wiped the blood away. "I'm really glad that you trust me Jo." as she laughed at me a bit before wrapping her arms around me hugging me tightly.

I hugged back as I pulled away in order to kiss her. "Don't ever scare me like that again." Josie told me as I said "Promise Peaches." as she smiled.

I then was meet with  tight hugs by my parents. "Oh Stefanie." my mom said hugging me as she sobbed. "Mom I'm ok." I told her as rose her face from my chest as she held my cheeks.

I smiled as I leaned my head on her arm. My dad put his hand on my arm, I looked at him and grinned as well before they both hugged me. I felt my parent's warmth and took the hug.

"Where so happy you're ok." my dad said kissing my forehead, "I'm happy to be ok." as I fixed my hair back.

"Where all happy you're ok." as Mackenzie hugged me all with each member of the Super Squad.

Hope hugged me tight. I hugged her back. "You can't get rid of me that easy Hope." as she said "I'm starting to get that myself." as she smiled at me.

I then saw Charlotte. She stood by the wall. She smiled at me. I then thought back to Wyatt.

"Char, I'm so sorry about Wyatt." Charlotte held herself together as she said "I'm fine. It doesn't matter now. Your ok and that all that matters." as her eyes fell a bit before she got a tear in her eyes as she said with a voice crack, "I'm happy you're alive. I'm sorry." as she walked away.

My aunt Caroline saw and said "I'll go get her." as she got up and went along with Lizzie and Kenz. I wanted to get up and check on Charlotte, it was my right as her best friend.

I meet eyes with Dr Saltzman. "Dr S, I'm so sorry, I should have just listen to you about everything, about the plans, Taylor, Jo, I should have stayed in my place-"

I was cut off when he walked to me and hugged me. "Oh." I said as I hugged him back. "You have no idea how happy I am, to have you back. And don't worry about that other stuff, you can't help yourself." as I smiled once we both pulled away from the hug.

"So I guess that means where back to being a cool bad a*s student teacher supernatural fighting duo ?" as he patted my back and said "You know it." as I grinned.

I rested back in my parents arms as my dad ruffled my hair as my mom kissed my forehead.

I saw Saige walk out of the room. I cleared my throat. "Excuse me guys." as I got up before kissing Josie's cheek as she smiled at me as I grabbed my cardigan and put my slippers on before opening the door and going outside...

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𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆

𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝑯𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓. 𝑴𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔.

I sighed as I heard the door open as I turned to see Stefanie. She wore a blank cropped tank top with grey pants and black cozy slippers along with her black cardigan, her hair was straight and down her back.

"Hi Sleeping Beauty." I told her as she chuckled, "Hi." as she walked towards me.

"How are you feeling ?" I asked her as she sat down and said "I'm not died so I'll take that as a A+" as I gave a tiny laugh, "Still fully vampire right ?"

She huffed as she said "Yep, still a vamp." as I said "If it wasn't just me it seems like you wanted something different to happen."

She took in a deep breathe. "I guess there was just a small part of me that just really hope that I would be a human again. Wake up and have all this stuff be in the past, but I guess that didn't happen."

I gave her a look, "Stef." as she looked at me. I wrapped her hand around mine as she said "None of us wanted to become what we are now. I didn't want to be a werewolf witch hybrid, Char didn't ask to be a vampire, werewolf hybrid, Mackenzie not a supernatural huntress, and you not a vampire doppelganger, but it seems like this is just going to be our life now."

"And we just have to accept that no matter how much it's going to hurt, how hard it's going to be and how much it's going to suck. But at least we all have each other."

She gave a slit grin. "Yeah at least we have one another to get trough this right ?" as I said "Now you're talking." as she face forward adding, "I failed him."

"I failed Wyatt." as Stefanie said with a shaky breathes, "He's dead now and it feels like it's all my fault." as she asked "How am I gonna tell his mom that her baby boy isn't coming home tonight ?"

I sighed before leaning my head on her shoulder as I told her "It's not your fault Stefanie, you are not the cause of his death, If anyone should pay for his death it should be Taylor."

"We'll make her pay for Wyatt." I said as she nodded, "Yeah she will." as she got up.

She was about to go inside. "I think I'm going to go inside and call it a night. I'm beat." as I said "Me to, I'm gonna go home with Raf and my dad. You make sure you stay ok alright ?"

She chuckled, "I will." as she chuckled "Good." as I chuckled back.

We both then looked at each other as we looked deep in one another's eyes. I leaned in to kiss her cheek. She smiled. "Good night Stefanie."

"Good night Saigey." as we hugged before she went back inside and I started to walk home...

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𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆

𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒅𝒂𝒚. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍. 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒇𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒛𝒆𝒓.

I looked in the mirror as Stefanie came behind me. She was dressed in a sweater and red stain shorts as her hair was in rolls for the funeral we where all going to for Wyatt.

She hugged me from behind, wrapping her arms around me.

"Hey remember it's not real." she told me as I said "I know it's just it all feels so real, like your really dead."

Stefanie said "Well I'm not, and really I'm dead, but not dead dead. I'm right here, so give your best fake tears, decides I for one was told of Josie Saltzman's amazing acting skills." as I laughed at her.

"Shut up." I told her as she said "No." with a small chuckle as she gave me a cup of iced coffee. "Decides this helps me stay safe from Taylor, if she knows I'm dead she'll stay away."

"Right." I said as I sipped my coffee. "Wow, that's a good caramel frappuccino." as Stefanie said "Thank you." as she grinned at me before kissing me.

I kissed back. I pulled away saying "Be ready around 1, that's when the service starts." as I fixed my hair taking the drink with me. "I will, promise, decides I'm gonna call Char to."

"Ok, I'll come see you after my first class." as I said "Don't mind me, I'll be here." as I nodded to her closing to the door.

I walked downstairs to the staircase, where I was meet with Hope. She wore the school uniform, her hair in a french braid as she held a milkshake in her hand.

"Hi Jo." as I hugged her as she hugged back. "Hi Hope." as she asked in a low tone "How is Stef ?"  as she added "Do to the fact that we can't talk about her out loud."

I said "She's fine, she's getting ready for Wyatt's private funeral." as Hope sighed and said "I can't believe that we lost him." as Josie said "I know it sucks."

I made my way down to my seat which was next to Lizzie as Hope sat between us. I gave her a hug as we began to "act." in her case.

"How is Charlotte ?" I asked her with a whisper as Lizzie told me, "She didn't want to talk to me, she was talking to mom all night." as I huffed, I hated seeing her upset.

My dad got on the stand as he cleared his throat. "Thank you students for joining me today for this emergency assemble. The reason we are here today because we have lost somebody. We have lost somebody important to the school."

"Stefanie Miranda Salvatore is dead." as all the students gasped around and started talking among themselves.

"Josie I'm so sorry."  student told me as my voiced crack before I said "Thank you."

"Stefanie wasn't just a student here, she was a legacy. She was a hero. And she will be missed. Her parents are organizing a funeral and it will be our honor to attend the funeral. We will say our farewells to her, the funeral will start at 1."

"That is all." he said as the students left. Me, Hope and Lizzie went towards him. "How did I do ?" he asked us as Lizzie said "Have to work on the sad voice." as Hope gave a slit eye roll.

"Nobody has seen Taylor nor Grace since last night. Me and Hope checked out the mansion it was empty." as my dad said, "Then that's means they must be gone." as Hope said "When have we've been that lucky."

"There probably still here lurking." Lizzie said as I said "Which means we keep Stefanie's death on the low." as Hope said "Agreed." as she added "I have to get ready for the funeral." as I asked "Are you going to be ok with being their ?"

"I've been through worse, plus can't let the fear of funereal haunt me forever." as she waved goodbye to us before she went upstairs as I sighed making my way to the cafeteria.

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𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆

𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓. 𝑴𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒃𝒖𝒏, 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒍 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔. 𝑴𝒚 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒌.

It was a photo of me and Wyatt. He had just won the game for the team and I was in my cheerleading uniform, my hair in a high ponytail as we both smiled as he held me bridal style.

I smiled at his grin as I ran my finger over him the picture. I took in a shaky breath feeling some tears come down my eyes. I then touched the necklace he gave me. It was of a cheerleader.

It was in gold and she had a high ponytail and he had a side tag that read "Char." with a heart and another tag that said "My number 1 cheerleader."

It was a gift when we first got together in freshman year. I remember smile over it because it was so pretty. I blew my cheeks out as I moved to my bed. I buried my eyes in my palm as I silently cried.

I couldn't believe he was gone, nor hurt, not sick gone and it was all my fault. I was unaware my door had open. "Char." I heard as Mackenzie came in.

She wore a black turtleneck with black dress pants and black heels. Her hair was straight, which wasn't normal even for Kenz, she also didn't wear any makeup beside lipstick and eyehshadow.

She held a basket of cookies from The Grill in her hand. She saw me crying. I rose my eyes at her, she put the cookies down on my nightstand. "Char, hey." she said coming towards me.

She sat down on my bed before pulling me into a hug. I leaned my head on her chest as I sobbed. "Hey, it's ok." she told me as I cried saying "He's gone Kenz and it's all my fault."

"Char, Wyatt's death isn't your fault-" as I cut her off and said "Yes it is. I should have never gotten him involved in any of this ! He would have been alive ! I should have never liked Taylor, I should have activated my werewolf side-" as Mackenzie said "Char." gently but I keep talking.

"I should have never came back to Mystic Falls." as Mackenzie said "Charlotte !" in a loud tone. I snapped my head towards her.

I yelled "What !" my hybrid eyes out. Mackenzie rose to her feet as she grabbed my hands."You can not blame yourself for Wyatt's death. He wouldn't want you to put that guilt on yourself and neither do I."

My eyes faded. I sighed as my head fell. "I-I just wish we could back to being normal kids." as Mackenzie said "Me to sometimes. But I can promise you something. I'll be here for you." as I chuckled saying "Always and Forever ?"

"Isn't that a Mikealson saying ?" she asked with a smile as I said "Yeah it is, but I had a feeling that your very much Mikealson material." she laughed at me. I laughed before rising my eyes at her.

"About yesterday what you said about us being just friends." Mackenzie's cheeks went red as she said "It was nothing, I was being dramatic, and I-I just don't know why I said that, I'm so so-

I cut her off with a kiss on her cheek. She was shocked as I pulled away. "Kenz. You know how much I care and love you, but with Wyatt gone, I don't think I can be in a relationship right now."

Mackenzie rubbed her lips together as she said "It's ok, I understand." as I held my head saying "But right now, we can be best friends." as she said "Yeah." as I grinned as she gave a lopsided grin.

The door opened again as my mom came through. Her hair was in a high ponytail as she wore a black dress. "Mom." I said as I stood next to Mackenzie.

"Hey Bunny Boo, Hi Mackenzie." as Mackenzie said "Hi Mrs Forbes." as she said "Ok, everything ready to go. Where about to head out." as I said "Ok." "Everyone's downstairs, including Mr, Mrs. Fell and Nancy."

"I should talk to her." I said as Charlotte said "Also some people wanted to see you." me and Mackenzie rose a brow before my mom opened the door as Saige and Stefanie came through.

Saige's hair was in a ponytail as she wore a short black lace dress with nude heels as Stefanie's hair was in deep curls and she wore a black pantsuit. Saige and her came towards me and Kenz, my mom closed the door.

"Guys." I said to them as they both hugged me. I took in a realized sigh, at least I could count on my girls to cheer me up. I hugged them back as I roped Mackenzie into the hug and it turned into a group hug...

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𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆

𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔. 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒂𝒇. 𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒔. 𝑰 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒆. 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒗𝒚. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝑴𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒊𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒂𝒅. 𝑬𝒛𝒓𝒂 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔. 𝑴𝒚 𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆. 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒖𝒑 𝒃𝒚 𝑾𝒚𝒂𝒕𝒕'𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌.

I sighed with teary eyes. Wyatt's mother kissed the side of his grave saying his final goodbyes as Wyatt's sister hugged the other side.

Nancy turned to Charlotte before she broke down and Charlotte hugged her. She leaned her head on Nancy's shoulder.

Nancy pulled away allowing Char to go to Wyatt's grave. She looked down to the tombstone, kneeled down and kissed her fingertips before placing it on Wyatt's grave. "Goodbye Wy." she said as she placed the rose on his grave.

Charlotte cried to. Me, Mackenzie and Saige walked towards her. Charlotte looked up at us. I held my hand out as she took it. She sniffled wiping her eyes. She then rested her head on my shoulder as I rubbed her arm as Saige rested her head on my shoulder and Mackenzie rested her head on Charlottle.

Sooner or later. I went away from the rest of the group. I was dead. Well yes dead, but not dead dead. I was unware. Nia and Ezra approaching me.

"Hey." Ezra said to me. "Hey." I said hugging her tightly. She pulled away from me as Nia waved.

Nia wore a black pantsuit with light makeup and booties as her hair was down her back.

"Hi Stefanie." as I said "Nia." as Nia said "I know me and you don't have the best past with it comes to our relationship, which is all Taylor and Grace's doing."

"It's ok." I told her titling my head as I added "I know you played a huge reason why I'm alive so I thank you for that."

Nia said "Your welcome." as I huffed saying "I think I'm gonna stay here for a while. I won't miss any coffee or teacakes." as Nia said "I'll tell your dad." as Ezra said "See you inside." as she waved goodbye.

I sighed as I played with my fingers. I saw everybody going inside. I stopped to look at the sunrise. I looked down at my hands to see my daylight ring.

I couldn't believe I had survived all this, something's telling me it's just the beginning of my journey. At least the people in my life was safe.

I just wish we didn't have to lose people all the way. Wyatt shouldn't have been died, it should have been me. I huffed as I saw Josie she gave me a smile before waving going inside with her dad, and Lizzie.

I waved back as I smiled to her. I made sure she was gone before I looked down at my hands.

I held my fingers out as a small fire sprouted from it.

I was terrified. When I came back, I must have awoken something within me, something I was far aware my family had.

I was a mix between three creatures, a vampire, doppelganger and now... a witch just like Taylor.

I shook the fire out. I wasn't ready to tell the other's yet.

I huffed before rubbing my lips together, as I turned around and walked away.

It started with a tribrid and now it's ending with one...

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